Imagine you have a Windows PC with a single user account, and you just lost your password. Here’s how to enable the hidden Administrator account with nothing more than the install CD and some registry hacking magic so you can reset your password. Normally if you wanted to, you’d need access to an Administrator mode command prompt, but that won’t work if you don’t have access, right? This is a great way to quickly enable the hidden admin account so you can reset the password on your main account. Note: This will require editing the registry which is risky. Proceed only if you know what you are doing and at your own risk. Enabling the Hidden Administrator Account Now prepare your Windows 7/Vista DVD and restart the computer with the DVD in the DVD Drive—you’ll want to boot from the DVD so you may need to change the boot order in the BIOS. Depending on your system you will need to press Del, F2, or F12. After you’ve successfully booted from the DVD you’ll be presented with the language setting of the Windows setup. ![]() In the next screen click “Repair your computer” from the bottom left corner of the window. Now the setup will search for Windows installations then display them, choose the Windows you want and click next. The setup may try to search for problems and may ask you if you want to restore your computer, just click no. Finally you’ll arrive at the System Recovery Options window that looks like this: Click Command Prompt. This will open up a command prompt window where you’ll have to type “regedit” and press enter. From this point on you have to be extra careful as one mistake might ruin your Windows and render it unusable. In the left side of the Registry Editor click “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” then in File menu click “Load Hive”. In the file name field type the following and hit enter.%windir% system32 config SAM The hive needs a name, give it a name and remember it. For the purpose of this article we will name it “test” so replace it with the name you chose for the next steps. What you just did is load the SAM file into the Registry Editor so we can edit it. The SAM file is the Security Accounts Manager and contains encrypted information about the account names and passwords. Now that it’s loaded into the registry, navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE test SAM Domains Account Users”. Click on “000001F4” and from the right side pane double-click the “F” entry. A new window will open allowing you to edit the “F” entry. The line that starts with “0038” is what you want to edit. The value next to “0038” is “11”, replace it with “10”. ![]() Be careful not to change anything else. Just double click the “11” and type “10” then hit the OK button. “11” is for disabled and “10” for enabled. Back in the Registry Editor, from the left side click on the name you gave to the hive you loaded earlier and click “Unload Hive” from the File menu, restart the computer and you are done. No admin account in windows 7 safe mode and cannot access guest. User-Admin account registry/profile got. You enable a disabled Admin Account in Windows 7? Enable Desktop Background. Login to the VCL reservation as Administrator; Configure Windows Explorer to. Windows 7 only allows its built-in profile copying. In this instructable i will show you guys how one can enable Administrator Account in Windows 7 The administrator account is a hidden, disabled and built-in. Jun 26, 2015. Across Windows 7, 8.1, and 10, there are up to three ways that you can enable (and disable) the Windows Administrator account. They're all equally effective, but the command prompt method is the only one that's guaranteed to be available on your version of Windows. Go with whichever option works best. If I disable the Administrator account will the settings go back to default or will any changes made remain after the disable? The Administrator account is now enabled. Have a question or a suggestion? Sound off in the comments. In this instructable i will show you guys how one can enable Administrator Account in Windows 7 The administrator account is a hidden, disabled and built-in account with Windows 7/Vista/xp. But a user can enable this account for some special actions. Such as troubleshooting, installing harmful software or some special networking tasks. By default, most of the user accounts are a part/member of the Administrator account. Others are standard accounts without being any part of an administrator account. Windows disabled this account to prevent malicious programs and harmful activities on the system. So any special task of system needs administrative privilege and the annoying UAC (User Account Control) bar will pop up for the users, except the administrator account. This instructable will show you how to enable Administrator account in three easy ways. Choose only one method from below to activate administrator account. Step 1: Method #1. Using Command Prompt. Type secpol.msc in start menu and run it as administrator. From this Local Security Policies, expand the security options under the Local Policies. Find 'Account: Administrator account status' from the right pane. Open the 'Account: Administrator account status' and choose Enabled to enable it. You can also disable it from here. After completing any of above processes, reboot your PC or log off. Now you will see a new account 'Administrator' which has no password by default. Log in to this account and enjoy the real administrator power of your PC. If you get the issue whereby it wont let you run because it needs a password, try the following. It worked for me. Restart the computer in safe mode with command prompt (via the boot manager, f1 in my case then f8 for options), log into your original admin account (no password needed in this mode) then enter 'net user administrator /active:yes'. Now you can restart your pc and it should be there. Hope this helps anyone that has come to this page with the same issue I have had (corrupt user profile). After i entered CMD in admin and typed in the following line. CMD said that it was fine and didn't require any further work. But when i relog or restart my PC to see if it worked. I can still see the administrator account along with my own 'Administrator' account. I've built my PC by myself and it didn't show at first when i rebooted my PC. But then i wanted to create two account on a project i was working on to see if it could handle a multi source. After i then wanted to remove the account it kept saying the same everytime i typed in the command in CMD. I've been trying to see if the other two methods are working. But I can't find the.msc file when i search. And i can't find the administrative account in section two? Any other solutions i can't even hide the account anymore oh might be a good idea to tell. Working on a Win7 Kind regards.
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